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First off, sorry for the length and the spelling/grammar errors...its been a long night. I work nights on a busy 33-bed telemetry floor at an inner-city nonprofit hospital. I am a new grad and have been on this floor for 1 year and 4 months and I ju...

I am looking for a website that has cute, printed scrub tops for CHEAP! I am a new nurse so I am pretty broke. Any ideas? I don't want any American flags or Looney Tunes... not that those are bad! Just not my style. Thanks so much!!

I was looking back at my previous posts and came across this one! Its amazing I totally forgot about the night I wrote about. Probably blacked it out! Phew, got out of that position a year ago! I now work days in ICVR (like short stay for cath lab) ...

I passed. Woo hoo! I liked David Woodruff's program as well. I found his practice questions to be extremely helpful. I also read the AACN Essentials of Progressive Care Nursing by Chulay and Burns which seemed to include a lot more information than w...

I am also taking PCCN tomorrow Sept 15th. Also purchased the SAE and felt horrible after I took it! I spoke with two other nurses I work with who just passed and they both said that the SAE was not like the actual PCCN test. That in the SAE the quest...

I've been a nurse on an Interventional CV Recovery and Telemetry unit for over a year. I work night shift and its starting to take its toll on my body and mind. I have recently been looking for day shift positions and came across an opening for an RN...

Never get your buddies to help you trim the top of your 6 foot hedge by lifting a running lawn mower 6 feet into the air Never continue to inject insulin into the same abscessed spot on your thigh, and then debate about getting it checked out when yo...

I am a new grad RN and have been in my current position for the past year. I have been offered a different position by my nurse manager and eagerly have accepted. According to hospital rules, my NM will need to create an open position that I will nee...

I've been working as an RN for the past 6 months in cardiology. My base pay is 27.99/hr plus 5.25/hr night differential and an additional $1/hr for weekends. This is in Oregon. I just realized I really need to start picking up extra shifts. Not only...

I am a new grad nurse 6 months into my position on a busy cardiac floor. I was always under the impression that an ejection franction (EF) of >55% was good. I was giving report to a fellow nurse and her student, I commented in report that the pati...

I was told by a cardiothoracic surgeon on our unit that intraoperatively when the heart is disturbed, the body releases glucose stores. He described it as a sudden surge of glucose. Which makes sense, your body thinks its under attack and it needs th...

I think the main issue with dilution would be that you are limited to using a large muscle for IM administration. I believe 2-5 mL is the max for IM injection in the ventrogluteal (which i've read is the current preferred site) according to most inst...

This sounds awful but my charge nurse told me this story about my former preceptor. Apparently one of her patients was crashing so she yelled out of the pt's room, "hurry someone call 911!" So, a phlebotomist who happened to be passing by the room at...

7/11/2007, took a couple months off and traveled; now 6 months into working in cardiology

Another thing the patient had been on 2.5 mg lisinopril bid and 200mg amiodarone qid. His cardiologist upped the lisinopril to 5 mg despite having a SBP in the 90s. I am wondering if the prescribing MD wanted to lower the BP so that the heart would p...

Thanks to all who answered my post! A little more information, because now more questions arise! I am so perplexed by this patient's situation. Sorry for the novel here.... The pt is very young and had an AVR when he was a teen d/t aortic stenosis. N...

I am a new grad RN, working 12 hour nights, fresh off orientation with a lot to learn. Beware, this might be a novel-sized post here. Last night I received word from my charge RN that he needed to speak with me. He stated that the charge RNs got an ...

Thank you so much for your advice. I know I made a mistake and a pretty big one at that. I definitely have learned from it and know, that being a new grad, I unfortunately will probably make more. It is a huge learning process. In future situations, ...

I use the term freshman because I entered a 4-year BSN program straight out of high school. Consequently, I started my nursing courses during my first year, or freshman year. I guess I am one of the few in nursing school that actually progressed thro...

I didn't see the A2! Hehe, yes I was referring to the HESI exit exam that you'll take 2-4 years down the road. I don't remember having to take HESI A2 at my school. Sorry!

I too was in a similar situation. Took the summer off and initially wasn't getting called for interviews. I revamped my cover letters and resume countless times to no avail. My best advice for you is to just keep applying. Check for openings on the h...

My school provided me with a text from HESI which was kind of mediocre, but it came with a CD that really helped me out. I would imagine your school will probably give you one as well if they haven't already. It was called "HESI NCLEX-RN Review: Prep...

I would recommend sticking with one science course and then taking human development and stats at the same time. In my experience, A&P, Chem, and Micro were all very time consuming as there were labs courses for each. I would play it safe and sti...

I start system-wide orientation on the 15th and was told to dress "business casual" and to not wear scrubs. I'm sure it varies from facility to facility.

Sorry to hear about your situation. When I was a freshman in nursing school I also had a difficult time with the exams in my first nursing class. No matter how hard I studied, I was getting low C's and high D's. I just could not identify the correct ...